Choosing life, choosing death: The tyranny of autonomy in medical ethics and law

Choosing Life, Choosing Death: The Tyranny of Autonomy in Medical Ethics and Law

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-216

  Foster, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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